Racism affects on POC Communities Gabriela Peña
Racism has been a major problem in many POC communities’ livelihoods, causing them to lose health benefits, their homes, and as well as their education as well. Multiple sources that have been used in this paper all explain the effects that racism has on large portions of the POC communities. In article “Racism Is Declared a Public Health Crisis in New York City [NYT] ” by Karen Zraick it showed that many places in NYC where there are large populations of Latinx and Black people have lower chances of being able to get the COVID-19 vaccinations. These actions are also shown in the article “ Racism Is Declared a Public Health Crisis in New York City [Smithsonian Magazine]” by Corryn Wetzel that it’s been proven that “New Yorkers of color have historically faced higher rates of HIV, obesity, maternal mortality, mental health conditions, and physical violence than white residents, and experts say those discrepancies have been magnified by the pandemic” showing it’s been so long that it’s commonly known that racism has major effects on POC people’s health and wellbeing. The other two articles that will also be talked “New York City school segregation perpetuates racism, lawsuit contends” by Joseph Ax and “Racism Still Exists”: A Public Health Intervention Using Racism “Countermarketing” Outdoor Advertising in a Black Neighborhood” by Naa Oyo A. Kwate talks about the effects of the failures of the school system in nyc for Black and Latinx students and the gentrification of Black neighborhoods.
Rhetorical Situation
In all the forms of media that is found throughout this essay all write about racism in NYC and in heavily urbanized areas, the purpose for this is for POC people in all these areas to know what is affecting them and the people around them. In both “Racism Is Declared a Public Health Crisis in New York City [NYT] ” by Karen Zraick and in “ Racism Is Declared a Public Health Crisis in New York City [Smithsonian Magazine]” by Corryn Wetzel both sources talk about the rampant problem in NYC of neighborhoods that have large black and/or lantix communities had have a history of low healthcare in these areas with higher rates of disease expectually after the effects of COVID-19 in these communities. These situations have an audience of the black and latinx communities in NYC, as well it has some constraints for example the author of “Racism Is Declared a Public Health Crisis in New York City [NYT] ” is not apart of the communities affected by this topic as well in “ Racism Is Declared a Public Health Crisis in New York City [Smithsonian Magazine]” both are written from people who are from an outside view of how these communities have been affected. In the other articles “New York City school segregation perpetuates racism, lawsuit contends” by Joseph Ax and “Racism Still Exists”: A Public Health Intervention Using Racism “Counter Marketing” Outdoor Advertising in a Black Neighborhood” by Naa Oyo A. Kwate both talk about the failures of the school system in nyc for Black and Latinx students and the gentrification of Black neighborhoods, both talks about the effects of the systems pushing POC communities out of their homes they have lived in for generations and also talk about the problems with how the education system fails people in POC communities in NYC. The only constraints each article has is that in “New York City school segregation perpetuates racism, lawsuit contends” Joseph Ax article is very short only a 3 min read, and in “Racism Still Exists”: A Public Health Intervention Using Racism “Counter Marketing” Outdoor Advertising in a Black Neighborhood” by Naa Oyo A. Kwate the author did not grow up in NYC.
The Purpose
Both in “Racism Is Declared a Public Health Crisis in New York City [NYT]” by Karen Zraick and in “Racism Is Declared a Public Health Crisis in New York City [Smithsonian Magazine]” by Corryn Wetzel both are written to inform the public about how POC people in NYC have not been treated well with any healthcare institutions and was on a all time rise with COVID-19 not being treated well and having higher risks. This article is trying to tell more people about how this is affecting many people in NYC that are affected by this. In “New York City school segregation perpetuates racism, lawsuit contends” by Joseph Ax it talks about the effects of NYC not helping black and latino communities in their education affecting them in future of their education. And in “Racism Still Exists”: A Public Health Intervention Using Racism “Counter Marketing” Outdoor Advertising in a Black Neighborhood” by Naa Oyo A. Kwate, Naa Oyo A. Kwate talks about how black communities are affected by companies placing harmful ads in their home areas and also running black communities out of their homes with gentrifications.
The Audience
The audience in all 4 of the articles involve the POC communities, they are all the group being the most effected, while in “Racism Is Declared a Public Health Crisis in New York City [NYT]” by Karen Zraick and “Racism Is Declared a Public Health Crisis in New York City [Smithsonian Magazine]” by Corryn Wetzel both talk more toward the people of NYC telling them about how changes are coming. The audiences in both articles are very closely related because of how both articles even in different mediums both have the same audience to talk to about this situation. In “New York City school segregation perpetuates racism, lawsuit contends” by Joseph Ax has similar audiences to the first two shown but the difference is towards the DOE of NYC heads to change how children in POC communities of NYC deserve to be treated the same to how the white students of NYC are treated academically. Finally, in “Racism Still Exists”: A Public Health Intervention Using Racism “Counter Marketing” Outdoor Advertising in a Black Neighborhood” by Naa Oyo A. Kwate the audience is to anyone who wants change for the black community to be treated better.
The Genre
The genre of all of the articles are Informational pieces about how the world of urbanization affects POC communities. All of the articles all had the purpose to inform people, some in NYC and some mainly in urbanized areas. The first three articles are more of a newspaper report while the final article is a detailed writing.
The Stance
The stance of the first two articles is that both talks about the implementation of making racism a public health crisis by stating “New Yorkers of color have historically faced higher rates of HIV, obesity, maternal mortality, mental health conditions, and physical violence than white residents, and experts say those discrepancies have been magnified by the pandemic. New York City has consistently invested in health services in wealthy, white neighborhoods, the board said, while overlooking lower-income communities.” [From “Racism Is Declared a Public Health Crisis in New York City [Smithsonian Magazine]” by Corryn Wetzel]. In the second article The author is neutral [leans more towards agreeing] to the school system because of the fact that the author is mainly just informing about what is occurring. Also informing what [Former] Mayor de Basilio wanted to do to help with this recurring problem. The final article stance is that racism is a constant thing in our society and causes many people to go through unneeded pain and is being used to market the worst products that harms many people as well as being run out of their neighborhoods because of gentrification.
In conclusion, Racism has been a major problem in many POC communities’ livelihoods, causing them to lose health benefits, their homes, and as well as their education as well. Multiple sources that have been used in this paper all explain the effects that racism has on large portions of the POC communities. Throughout these articles even when they are all coming from different places, they all had the same point of view of wanting change for these communities.
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